SoundHound - Music Discovery
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Identify songs and get lyrics

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Description

Hey, what song is that? SoundHound makes it simple to identify music playing around you. Whether you’re in the car or out and about — open the app, hit the big orange SoundHound button, let your phone listen for a few seconds, and we’ll tell you exactly what’s playing! It's been called pure magic — and with 300M+ downloads and billions of songs discovered — we tend to agree.

SoundHound comes equipped with “OK Hound…”, an incredibly powerful way to interact with the app using your voice. “OK Hound…” can help you navigate the app, activate the orange button, and playback songs hands-free. Simply say ‘OK Hound...’ from any screen and say a command!

Discovering new music is only half the fun of SoundHound. We’re music lovers too, so we’ve created an incredible experience for you to relive your discoveries with our music player. Connect your Apple Music or Spotify account to listen, build playlists, explore music across genres, and find new favorites - all with real-time, karaoke-style lyrics using LiveLyrics®. Don’t have an Apple Music or Spotify subscription? No sweat, we have you covered with our free, built-in YouTube player. This is your music journey.

Curious to know more? Here’s everything you need to know!

DISCOVER• Tap the SoundHound button in the app, in the notification center widget, or via 3D touch on the app icon to discover music playing around you! We’ll let you know everything about the song including title, artist, album, and lyrics!• Have a song stuck in your head? Press the SoundHound button, sing or hum the tune, and we’ll do the rest!• Keep track of all your discoveries in your own personal history• Use the Apple Watch app to quickly identify music and sing-along with LiveLyrics. Users with a cellular-enabled Apple Watch can use the app without being connected to an iPhone

PLAY• Listen to songs and view lyrics in our free, built-in YouTube player• Simply say ‘OK Hound....’ from any screen or tap the microphone on the play page. Once you see the listening panel, you can follow up with commands including:

CONNECT AND SHARE• Build personalized playlists through Apple Music or Spotify (SoundHound account and music subscription required)• Access Spotify playlists for a richer playback experience through SoundHound• View and interact with real-time, moving lyrics for your songs with LiveLyrics• Keep all of your discoveries synced across multiple devices• Share your music discoveries to Facebook, Twitter, messaging services, and email!

Upgrade to SoundHound∞ for an ad-free experience: https://04ii.app.link/RXaRXypntA

SoundHound is powered by Houndify, an independent voice-enabled AI platform that enables natural, conversational intelligences on any product.

What’s New

Version History

8.9.2

Nov 19, 2018

Have ideas on how we can improve? We’d love to hear from you. Now you can submit feedback directly within the app! Just go to Settings and tap “Contact Us.”

8.9.1

Oct 23, 2018

You can now use Siri shortcuts for SoundHound! For example, ask Siri, “What song is this?” and SoundHound will open and automatically identify the songs playing around you. There’s also a new animation that plays when a discovered song is added to your History.

Staying up-to-date on the latest tech? We added support for Apple Watch 4! And lastly, strong passwords can now be automatically generated when creating a SoundHound account on iOS 12.

8.9

Sep 19, 2018

Song, Album, and Artist pages have a brand new look! The album art now takes center stage, and we’ve made it easier than ever to play, favorite, and share your songs with friends. Stream full length tracks, sing along with LiveLyrics®, and automatically add your discoveries to playlists when you connect to Apple Music or Spotify.

8.8.1

8.8

8.7.1

8.7

May 3, 2018

Did you know you'll never lose your history with a SoundHound account? Register in one easy step!

8.6.1

Apr 19, 2018

Bug fixes and improvements

8.6

Apr 3, 2018

Love using SoundHound to play music? We’ve made it even easier to find your next song. • Use your voice on the music player by tapping the microphone button• New smart search will suggest relevant songs, artists, and albums as you type

8.5

Feb 15, 2018

SoundHound for Apple Watch is back and it’s better than ever! Apple Watch users can identify songs and sing-along with LiveLyrics right from their wrist.

With an Apple Watch Series 3 (and an active cellular connection) you can even use the SoundHound Watch app when away from your iPhone! No matter which Watch you own, be sure to add the SoundHound complications to your watch face for one-tap music identification.

The SoundHound iOS app also comes equipped with “OK Hound…”, a fast and powerful way to use the app with just your voice. We’ve added a few helpful tips so you can learn more along the way.

8.4

Dec 19, 2017

Bug fixes and improvements

8.3

Nov 29, 2017

Listen to your favorite Spotify playlists in SoundHound!

Spotify Premium users: Stream full songs in SoundHound. Interact with the LiveLyrics® to navigate the song - double tap a line to jump to the chorus, skip ahead, or replay from the beginning.

8.2

Oct 30, 2017

Optimized for iPhone X and bug fixes

8.1

Oct 10, 2017

+iOS 11 support, bug fixes, & text search on home page

8.0.2

Sep 11, 2017

Your favorite music discovery and recognition app has an all new, streamlined look! SoundHound 8 recognizes songs faster, is easier to navigate, comes equipped with ‘OK Hound…’, the best way to find music with just your voice. Get the most out of SoundHound 8 by connecting your Apple Music or Spotify account to enjoy full tracks with real-time lyrics!

SoundHound 8 is a must-have for your music-filled life. + Text search for songs, artists, and lyrics

8.0.1

Aug 31, 2017

Your favorite music discovery and recognition app has an all new, streamlined look! SoundHound 8 recognizes songs faster, is easier to navigate, comes equipped with ‘OK Hound…’, the best way to find music with just your voice. Get the most out of SoundHound 8 by connecting your Apple Music or Spotify account to enjoy full tracks with real-time lyrics!

SoundHound 8 is a must-have for your music-filled life.

8.0

Aug 30, 2017

Your favorite music discovery and recognition app has an all new, streamlined look! SoundHound 8 recognizes songs faster, is easier to navigate, comes equipped with ‘OK Hound…’, the best way to find music with just your voice. Get the most out of SoundHound 8 by connecting your Apple Music or Spotify account to enjoy full tracks with real-time lyrics!

SoundHound 8 is a must-have for your music-filled life.

7.6.1

Jun 20, 2017

Thanks for using SoundHound! To bring you the best experience, we make regular updates to fix bugs and improve performance.

7.6

Jun 1, 2017

Get your Widget on! Use our new widget to SoundHound from your search, home, and lock screens:--Recognize songs playing around you even more quickly--View and access your SoundHound history

Great, how do I get it? --Scroll down to the bottom of your your search screen and tap ‘Edit’ or --Long press on the SoundHound app icon to get the 3D touch menu and tap ‘Add Widget’

In case you missed our 7.5 release, you can now connect to Apple Music! --Automatically save your search history to a playlist in Apple Music.--Say “OK Hound… play ‘Down’ by Marian Hill”. Quickly find and play an Apple Music song hands-free. --Stream the full song in SoundHound while enjoying LiveLyrics®. --Navigate the song with LiveLyrics - double tap a line to jump to the chorus, skip ahead, or replay from the beginning.

7.5

May 10, 2017

Connect to Apple Music! -Automatically save your search history to a playlist in Apple Music.-Say “OK Hound… play ‘Down’ by Marian Hill”. Quickly find and play an Apple Music song hands-free. -Stream the full song in SoundHound while enjoying LiveLyrics®. -Navigate the song with LiveLyrics - double tap a line to jump to the chorus, skip ahead, or replay from the beginning.

Thanks for using SoundHound! To bring you the best experience, we make updates to the App Store regularly. Each update of the SoundHound app includes fixes and performance improvements.

7.4

Feb 14, 2017

Spotify Premium users can now play full songs in SoundHound with LiveLyrics®. You can even navigate the song via lyrics by double tapping on them. Just connect to get started!

Includes additional bug fixes and performance updates.

7.3.1

Dec 22, 2016

•Enjoy a complete music experience - listen to full songs, playlists and watch videos with our free music player. •Follow along with LiveLyrics, and listen to curated playlists•Say “OK Hound… play the hottest songs” to listen in hands-free mode•Access playlists such as: - Your personal SoundHound music history - Emerging artists across the globe - Hottest tracks in the US and across the world - And many more

7.3

Dec 7, 2016

•Enjoy a complete music experience - listen to full songs, playlists and watch videos with our free music player. •Follow along with LiveLyrics, and listen to curated playlists•Say “OK Hound… play the hottest songs” to listen in hands-free mode•Access playlists such as: - Your personal SoundHound music history - Emerging artists across the globe - Hottest tracks in the US and across the world - And many more•Bug fixes

Nov 19, 2018

Version 8.9.2

Have ideas on how we can improve? We’d love to hear from you. Now you can submit feedback directly within the app! Just go to Settings and tap “Contact Us.”

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5

126.7K Ratings

126.7K Ratings

Musicislife1287
,01/24/2018

❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOVE SOUNDHOUND!

LOVE this app. I use it all the time both for trying to remember a song I knew but forgot the artist or a new song that catches my ear. I have been a SoundHound users since what feels like the beginning. They have proven to be consistent and reliable. Which is quick and accurate results. One of the main reasons I love SoundHound is for the feature that no other app features. Which is live lyrics! That is by far one of the coolest most useful things about SoundHound! Being able to sing along (rather badly) with either a fav song or even a new song im obsessed with learning the lyrics to, the app is there for me :). SoundHound I felt has always tried to give the user what they want. Realizing its difficult to please everyone, I for one have been a very happy and satisfied customer since its launch. I tried the "other" guys and they were just too commercial for me. SoundHound was the right balance of finding new music without pushing the sales-y part of the music industry onto me. I love it for its accuracy, its fast results, and giving me MORE if I chose to know more. Its all there. Keep up the good work guys!

Developer Response
,04/14/2017

Thank you for your review! Happy to hear you've enjoyed using SoundHound. If you have any additional feedback to share in the future, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Musicislife1287
,01/24/2018

❤️❤️❤️❤️ LOVE SOUNDHOUND!

LOVE this app. I use it all the time both for trying to remember a song I knew but forgot the artist or a new song that catches my ear. I have been a SoundHound users since what feels like the beginning. They have proven to be consistent and reliable. Which is quick and accurate results. One of the main reasons I love SoundHound is for the feature that no other app features. Which is live lyrics! That is by far one of the coolest most useful things about SoundHound! Being able to sing along (rather badly) with either a fav song or even a new song im obsessed with learning the lyrics to, the app is there for me :). SoundHound I felt has always tried to give the user what they want. Realizing its difficult to please everyone, I for one have been a very happy and satisfied customer since its launch. I tried the "other" guys and they were just too commercial for me. SoundHound was the right balance of finding new music without pushing the sales-y part of the music industry onto me. I love it for its accuracy, its fast results, and giving me MORE if I chose to know more. Its all there. Keep up the good work guys!

Developer Response
,04/14/2017

Thank you for your review! Happy to hear you've enjoyed using SoundHound. If you have any additional feedback to share in the future, please don't hesitate to let us know!

Coeur de Parisienne
,08/30/2018

Return User - Excellent App!

So, my wife and I are music fiends; grew up on it, love most genres - well, except country but that’s for personal reasons no room to explain - whenever a song is played on a tv show or movie - or anywhere really - that catches our attention, we love to use our phones to find out who the artist is and song name. Well, we once used this app years ago; but as apps and space became an issue it sadly went away. Mainly because hey, “Siri has the same feature right?” Let me tell you this people: Siri has digressed in many ways since it’s period of amazing us. When Siri continues to take FOREVER to reply to the simple request of identifying the song - no, this is not a WiFi or network issue as most of you will agree - the song is OVER or the cutscene where the song is used is long gone and Siri still is identifying....well, we’ve had enough. This app is great, always has been. We are happy with its features and will NOT be using “you know who” for those requests anymore...or most other things these days...but that’s a different story. Great app keep up the good work developers!

Coeur de Parisienne
,08/30/2018

Return User - Excellent App!

So, my wife and I are music fiends; grew up on it, love most genres - well, except country but that’s for personal reasons no room to explain - whenever a song is played on a tv show or movie - or anywhere really - that catches our attention, we love to use our phones to find out who the artist is and song name. Well, we once used this app years ago; but as apps and space became an issue it sadly went away. Mainly because hey, “Siri has the same feature right?” Let me tell you this people: Siri has digressed in many ways since it’s period of amazing us. When Siri continues to take FOREVER to reply to the simple request of identifying the song - no, this is not a WiFi or network issue as most of you will agree - the song is OVER or the cutscene where the song is used is long gone and Siri still is identifying....well, we’ve had enough. This app is great, always has been. We are happy with its features and will NOT be using “you know who” for those requests anymore...or most other things these days...but that’s a different story. Great app keep up the good work developers!

GrandBeary
,10/19/2018

SoundHound Rating

I LOVE Soundhound❣️ My husband introduced it to me about a year ago and I have used it to see who the artist of a song is, to see the lyrics on a song playing on the radio or my favorite TV Station “ Contemporary Christian Music”. It keeps a song I love on a playlist and can go back and listen to it again anytime I want to. There are so many things you can do and/or find out about a song, an artist, search for a song even if you only know part of the lyrics and it will 9out of 10 times find the name of the song and artist, I could go on and on about SoundHound it is my all time FAVORITE APP of all the millions you can get!My husband use to be my “SoundHound”. When I met him he was a DJ and knows who, what, when, where about most any song in any genre. Even though he knows so much about music he has SoundHound and loves it too. I figured he uses it to see if he is right about a song he heard. Again. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT❣️

GrandBeary
,10/19/2018

SoundHound Rating

I LOVE Soundhound❣️ My husband introduced it to me about a year ago and I have used it to see who the artist of a song is, to see the lyrics on a song playing on the radio or my favorite TV Station “ Contemporary Christian Music”. It keeps a song I love on a playlist and can go back and listen to it again anytime I want to. There are so many things you can do and/or find out about a song, an artist, search for a song even if you only know part of the lyrics and it will 9out of 10 times find the name of the song and artist, I could go on and on about SoundHound it is my all time FAVORITE APP of all the millions you can get!My husband use to be my “SoundHound”. When I met him he was a DJ and knows who, what, when, where about most any song in any genre. Even though he knows so much about music he has SoundHound and loves it too. I figured he uses it to see if he is right about a song he heard. Again. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT❣️